In my dream R is visiting from Europe and her new work is astonishing: elaborate drawings of entwined bodies and planned installations. She has transformed herself: her limbs are gone below the elbows and knees and across her back is a detailed tattoo of a hairy chest with defined abs. She has gone so far. I’m stunned and jealous.

In my dream the guards slide bodies into the coffins they have propped up in the glade. The sun strikes the brightly colored lids whose shifting patterns betray their “AI” generated origins. This was inevitable.

In my dream the yellow river spreads out before us as we look down from the barge’s deck. Turning out around I see a towering rock with apartments carved into its surface twenty stories up.